Echeveria amoena is a species of succulent plant in the family Crassulaceae, endemic to semi-arid areas of the Mexican states of Puebla, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz.
Description
It is a
Herbaceous plant,
Perennial plant plant with a stem up to 8 cm long. It grows in the form of a compact rosette, commonly less than 5 cm in diameter, with fleshy, obovate-oblanceolate, full-margin and accumulated apex leaves.
The inflorescence is a simple, reddish zinc, 10 to 22.5 cm high, with several alternate ascending, succulent, green, reddish or pink-orange bracts. The corolla includes petals similar to bracts.
Taxonomy
Echeveria amoena was described in 1875 by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren, attributed to , in
Annales de Botanique et d'Horticulture.
Echeveria amoena also forms the hybrid Echeveria subalpina × amoena, which is considered by some authors as the species E. meyraniana.
Etymology
- Echeveria : generic name given in honor of Mexican botanical artist Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy (1771? –1803)
- amoena : epithet Latin meaning "pleasant" or "lovely"
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